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A Quick Look at FreeCAD

February 25, 2016

FreeCAD is an open source parametric CAD software, which is obviously also free. We’ve taken a quick look at it to check if it’s something that we’d recommend to other makers. FreeCAD is still in heavy development (current latest non-dev.…

Getting Started with Programming – part 2: Conditional Statements

February 18, 2016

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials, Software Tutorials

If you’re new to programming, you should definitely read part 1. The author realize that part 1 was a tad too large and therefore parts in this series will come as more bite-sized chunks from now on. In this part…

Embedded-desk: How is it equipped now?

February 9, 2016

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

Misc. Other Projects, Updates

This post is a continuously updated description of the current state of one of our “embedded-desks”. Computer A computer is a great tool. Both for creating things (programming, PCB-layout etc) and it’s a great companion when assembling stuff. Displaying datasheets, graphing…

More light! Embedded-desk here we come

January 27, 2016

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

LED Projects

In this post we explain what we did to light up our “embedded”-desk. As everything, it started with a need for light. And not a small amount. Enough to work well. Enough to see what you are doing. Enough to do what…

Making an (Open Source) Office Lamp

January 19, 2016

Ragnar Ranøyen Homb

Woodworking Projects

Good lighting is often underestimated (together with a lot of different things). We decided to build a couple of both good looking, powerful and functional office lamps. Design The lamp is designed around the “GU10-socket-standard”. It consists of 10 GU10-sockets,…

Getting Started with Programming – part 1: Skimming the Surface

January 13, 2016

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials, Software Tutorials

If you’ve never touched it before, getting started with programming can be a daunting task. Luckily, there are countless of good resources around the interwebs on how to get started. Despite this, we’re going to write our own little series…

Tutorial – Multiple Values in the Arduino IDE Serial Plotter

January 7, 2016

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials

On December 17th 2015, Arduino released their IDE version 1.6.7 which allows multiple values to be plotted in the serial plotter. We have set up an example to show you how to use this feature. Our setup for testing the…

A Quick Look at the Free Browser-based CAD Software Onshape

December 17, 2015

Mads Aasvik

First Impressions - Software

Onshape is a powerful browser-based CAD software which has a wide array of tools to make you able to create all sorts of intricate 3D models. The software has a strong focus on cross-platform cloud usage and features assembly tools…

Embedded Tutorial – DC Motors

December 2, 2015

Mads Aasvik

Maker Tutorials

Connecting a DC motor to a power source and making it spin has to be one of the first electronics-related activity many people do in their lives. Controlling it with a microcontroller or an Arduino is not much more complicated,…

Tutorial: Arduino and Buttons

November 12, 2015

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials, Maker Tutorials

A couple of weeks ago we wrote an Arduino tutorial about potentiometers. This week we’re going to take a quick look at the pot’s close relative: the button. We will do a simple example circuit and code with an Arduino…

Gravity Pong

November 4, 2015

Gunnar Ranøyen Homb

LED Projects, Raspberry Pi Projects, Woodworking Projects

Gravity Pong is a 4.5 meter high ball bouncing RGB-LED game. It contains, among other things, 1792 individual controllable LEDs, that together can draw up to almost 108 Amps! Continue reading to find out how we took this into account when we built this game. Introduction Gravity…

Tutorial: Potentiometers with Arduino and Filtering

October 28, 2015

Mads Aasvik

Arduino Tutorials, Maker Tutorials

In this blogpost we will go through what a potentiometer is and how they work, how to connect it up to an Arduino as well as describe a common problem with regards to potentiometer usage and a workaround to that…

How to Use a Sheet CNC Mill or Laser Cutter to Easily Realize a 3D model

October 22, 2015

Mads Aasvik

Maker Tutorials, Software Tutorials

The short answer is Autodesk 123D Make. You might think we’re getting paid by Autodesk to write all these posts about their software. This is not the case, but as a maker you should really be aware of some of…

What Is Autodesk 123D Design and Why Should You (Not) Use It?

October 15, 2015

Mads Aasvik

First Impressions - Software

EDIT: Autodesk 123D Design has been discontinued as of March 31st 2017. It is no longer available for download from the official site and already downloaded versions will no longer be supported. However, you are able to download it here…

A Quick Look at Autodesk Tinkercad

October 8, 2015

Mads Aasvik

First Impressions - Software

A few weeks ago we wrote an intro to CAD for makers. We mentioned that Sketchup and Autodesk Fusion 360 are two good alternatives to the bigger and more expensive CAD beasts out there. However, if you find those programs…

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